Underplayed Gems

Hot Stuff (1929)

Hot Stuff poster
Directed by
Mervyn LeRoy
Genre
silent film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 10m
Rating
10.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A part-talkie comedy from 1929 where a group of characters get into comedic situations. It blends silent film intertitles with spoken dialogue and a synchronized score.

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What happens

Hot Stuff is a 1929 American sound part-talkie comedy film directed by Mervyn LeRoy and written by Robert S. Carr, Humphrey Pearson, and Louis Stevens. In addition to sequences with audible dialogue or talking sequences, the film features a synchronized musical score and sound effects along with English intertitles. According to the film review in Variety, 30 percent of the total running time featured dialogue. The sound was recorded via the Vitaphone sound-on-disc process. The film stars Alice White and features Louise Fazenda, William Bakewell, Doris Dawson, Ben Hall, and Charles Sellon. The film was released by First National Pictures on May 5, 1929. The film's survival status is uncertain. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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